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November 14, 1961

Department of State Memorandum of Conversation, 'Broadened Access to Israel’s Nuclear Reactor'

Israel would prefer a visit by Scandinavian or Swiss scientists to Dimona.

June 16, 1961

Department of State Memorandum of Conversation, 'The Dimona Reactor'

The State Department made plans to brief Arab governments on the US visit to Dimona, but Deputy Assistant Secretary Armin Meyer asked Ambassador Harman if his government would be willing to work with US representatives at the IAEA Board of Governors meeting to make an announcement of the visit to Dimona and also to undertake quiet discussions at the meeting about a possible neutral visit to Dimona. Harman, however, objected to an IAEA role in the Dimona matter until the rest of the world had accepted the idea of inspections and he wanted Washington to coordinate any visit by neutral scientists.

May 16, 1961

Special Assistant to the Secretary of State for Atomic Energy and Outer Space Philip J. Farley, Memorandum of Conversation, 'Israeli Atomic Energy Program'

Farley reports on a conversation with Mordechai Gazit regarding the American visit to Dimona and the purposes of the visit.

May 1, 1961

Deputy Assistant Secretary Meyer Memorandum of Conversation, 'Visit to Israeli Reactor'

Armin H. Meyer discusses the US visit to Dimona with Mordechai Gazit.

April 17, 1961

Assistant Secretary Jones, Memorandum of Conversation, 'U.S. Visit to Dimona'

Jones proposes to Israeli Minister Plenipotentiary Mordechai Gazit that the US visit to Dimona be kept "quiet" rather than "secret."